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- Title
What does a prince do?: Postfeminist girlhood and boyhood in Disney Junior cartoons.
- Authors
McCoy, Kelli
- Abstract
The Disney Junior television network provides 24-hour-a-day programming aimed at preschool-aged children. Its popular animated series depict female characters in ways that are stronger than ever before. The girls are brave, heroic, adventurous, and are the moral anchors for the shows. However, their efforts are undermined by many of the male characters, who tend to represent stereotypical tropes of masculinity, including the braggart, the buffoon and the reckless younger brother. Therefore, these programmes are representative of a postfeminist and neoliberal culture, in which girls are expected to do more than boys in order to be successful, while boys take risks with few negative consequences.
- Subjects
UNITED States; DISNEY characters; CARTOON characters; DISNEY Princess (Trademark); PRETEEN girls; PRETEENS; SECONDARY education; EDUCATION
- Publication
Visual Inquiry: Learning & Teaching Art, 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2, p111
- ISSN
2045-5879
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/vi.7.2.111_1